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Dr. Stella Nyanzi is participating in ‘The State of the Art of Sexuality Dr. Stella Nyanzi is participating in ‘The State of the Art of Sexuality Research in Africa’ International Conference organized by the University of Amsterdam, University of Nairobi, and University of Cape Coast at Morendat Training and Conference Centre in Naivasha, Kenya from 16th-18th February 2015. She is presenting a paper based on her ongoing ethnography, entitled “Of Born-Again Homosexuals in Contemporary Uganda: Revisiting the Antithesis of African Queer Believers.”

MISR invites applications for the positions of Research Fellows and Senior Research Fellows.

Deadline for submission of applications is 13 March, 2015.

Further details on the application procedure will be provided in forthcoming days.

Lawrence Ocen, 4^th year PhD student at MISR has been admitted to the 2015-2016 cohort of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Program (UMAPS). He joins a prestigious group of over 100 African faculty who have taken part in the program since its inception in February 2009.

The price of oil is falling fast and may continue doing so. What is Uganda's way forward?

By A.B.K. Kasozi

On November 24, on a cold day in New York, I watched a reporter on BBC America ask the Uganda minister of Energy whether Uganda had not lost out on earning good money by refusing to export crude early when the prices were good.

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Dr. Stella Nyanzi is presenting a paper entitled "African Families and
Sexualities from a Human Rights Perspective" at a conference entitled
"When Theology Produces Violence: With Ecumenical International Relations
and LGBT as  Case". The gathering is jointly organised by LLH - the
Norwegian LGBT Organisation and the Christian Council of Norway and held
at the Theological College of Norway between 20th-22nd January 2015.

Source: The Hindu

'Charlie Hebdo cartoons are bigoted'

Vidya Venkat

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Dr. Stella Nyanzi participated in a 'Colloquium on the Rights of
Sexual Minorities in Africa: Charting a Way Forward' that was organised by
the University of Pretoria's Center for Human Rights on 8th and 9th
December 2014. She presented a paper entitled "Fundamentalisms and
LGBTI Rights in Africa" that is based on one of her on-going ethnographic
research studies.

Tribute to Ali Mazrui by Mahmood Mamdani

We should think of Ali as a long distance runner from a continent that specializes in giving the world some of its best long distance runners. Ali ran to his last breath: the ink kept flowing and the corpus kept growing, and the voice was as booming as ever.